The EmperorHe has a form of the Crux ansata lor his scepter and a globein his left hand. He is crowned monarch-commanding, stately,seated on a throne, the arms of which are fronted by rams'heads.

The Emperor

The Emperor

He has a form of the Crux ansata lor his scepter and a globein his left hand. He is crowned monarch-commanding, stately,seated on a throne, the arms of which are fronted by rams'heads.

He is executive and realization, the power of this world,here clothed with the highest of its natural attributes. Heis occasionally represented as seated on a cubic stone,which, however, confuses some of the issues. He is thevirile power, to which the Empress responds, and in thissense is he who seeks to remove the Veil of Isis; yet sheremains virgo intacta.

It should be understood that this card and that of theEmpress do not precisely represent the condition of marriedlife, though this state is implied. On the surface, as Ihave indicated, they stand for mundane royalty, uplifted onthe seats of the mighty; but above this there is thesuggestion of another presence.

They signify, also-and the male figure especially-the higherkingship, occupying the intellectual throne. Hereof is thelordship of thought rather than of the animal world. Bothpersonalities, after their own manner, are "full of strangeexperience," but theirs is not consciously the wisdom whichdraws from a higher world. The Emperor has been described as(a) will in its embodied form, but this is only one of itsapplications, and (b) as an expression of virtualitiescontained in the Absolute Being- but this is fantasy.